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4/8/19 Storytellers New Haven- April edition! 6:30pm – 7:30pm
Come down to 4 Science Park for the April edition of Storytellers New Haven and hear from two new tellers. Doors open at 6:15 pm. Telling begins at 6:30. All are welcome! Light refreshments are served.
4/8/19 A Community Conversation on Intersectional Climate Justice 7pm – 9pm
Join the Connecticut Roundtable on Climate and Jobs and the Glastonbury MLK Community Initiative for a Community Conversation on Climate Change and Exploring the Intersection of Racial, Economic and Environmental Justice at the Glastonbury Riverfront Community Center, 2155 Main St, Glastonbury. Reception Begins at 6:30 pm and program will go from 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Event is FREE, but please RSVP Here >> http://bit.ly/2W75nif More event details, including list of speakers: http://bit.ly/2Y68id1
4/8/19 Legislative Update & Action Night for Gun Violence Prevention 7:30pm – 9pm
The Unitarian Church In Westport, ICT4 - Indivisible Connecticut 4 and the Interfaith Council of Westport and Weston are hosting a Legislative Update & Action Night for Gun Violence Prevention with Jeremy Stein, Executive Director of CT Against Gun Violence at the Unitarian Church In Westport, 10 Lyon Plains Road, Westport. Come to learn about the status of gun safety bills pending in the CT General Assembly followed by actions you can take to help get the bills passed. The call to actions will include contacting friends and family, so you may want to bring a tablet or laptop.
4/9/19 CCSU Workshop: Tech, Big Data & Mass Surveillance in Capitalism 5pm – 7pm
Hosted by the Party for Socialism and Liberation and happening at the CCSU Student Center -- Sprague-Carlton Room – “They're watching. We're fighting back. Facebook. Google. Apple. Microsoft. Yahoo. All of these companies - and more - spy on us every day, providing information to private advertising companies and government agencies alike. Join the discussion on capitalism, big data and the mass surveillance state - and how to protect yourself & fight back! Free event! More info: ct@pslweb.org
4/9/19 Protest Hate at UConn-Storrs 6pm – 9pm
Come down to Fairfield Way and Mansfield Road, UConn to Protest Hat at UConn Storrs. From the organizers “The UConn administration under president Herbst has, once again, elected to put the campus and surrounding communities at an increased risk of hate crimes, and emboldening right-wing extremists across eastern Connecticut, by giving a platform to xenophobic bigots and protecting their alt-right safe space with the full draconian force of the UConn Police. Click here for more background:http://dailycampus.com/stories/2019/4/1/xhq8u2b3ptw9myks4c9jnxbj90aa9w The Connecticut General Membership Branch of the Industrial Workers of the World calls on all anti-fascists and anti-racists to stand together in solidarity against Turning Point USA's hate and incitement to terrorism. We invite co-sponsors of this demonstration, though we understand that the Herbst administration has cracked-down on progressive and left-wing organizations after Lucian Wintrich assaulted an anti-fascist activist who refused to sit idly by in the face of his hate speech. If your student group, union or community organization wishes to stand with us, officially or otherwise, please reach out to us atsolidoggity@protonmail.com”.
4/9/19 1st Annual EAT Party: Empanadas, Art, & Talking 7pm – 10pm
Come down to 3580 Main Street, Building 11, Hartford for a belated celebration so to also party about National 'Name Yourself' day! There will be a contest for best nickname/alias/fake name so come prepared with your "on-the-lam" go to name. The E.A.T. model: EMPANADAS -- self-explanatory...you EAT them...wink-wink! ART -- group art activities + Art vendors to experience. TALKING -- as a social worker, I am all about people communicating in meaningful ways, build with old and new ppl! Join this wonderful experience; eat some empanadas and laugh with us while coloring a GIANT cactus and listen to dope music. P.S. The price is $5.92 so it comes out to a clean $7 dollars after the fees!
4/10/19 Speaker Event: Reaching LGBTQ Youth 7pm – 8:30pm
Come down to the Yale University Office of LGBTQ Resources, 135 Prospect Street, New Haven for a conversation with Louie Ortiz-Fonseca & Lincoln Mondy of Advocates for Youth and Juancarlos Soto of Planned Parenthood of Southern New England & the New Haven LGBTQ Youth Task Force around reaching LGBTQ youth to address public health issues, tackle HIV/AIDs stigma, and advance LGBTQ rights. Louie & Lincoln are the creators of the web series Kikis with Louie, a YouTube series featuring honest, deep conversations about the most challenging issues facing queer youth: relationships, sexuality, health, culture, and more. They are activists and award-winning campaign creators. Juancarlos is a local activist and artist, represents PPSNE in the New Haven LGBTQ Task Force, runs the Black & Brown Queer Camp in Connecticut, and is one of the 2019 recipients of the Dorothy Award for LGBTQ activists. Co-sponsored by Community Health Educators, OutLaws (YLS), Out in Public (YSPH), Reproductive Justice Action League at Yale, & Planned Parenthood GenAction at Yale. Sponsored by the Poynter Fellowship for Journalism at Yale.
4/11/19 City Wide Youth Coalition Fundraiser 2pm – close
Happening at Garden Catering, New Haven, 10% of in-store sales and 20% of gift card sales will be donated to City Wide Youth Coalition’s 8 day queer camp dedicated to talking about the issues young LGBTQ folks face that go pass sexuality and gender, serving as a safe place for the marginalized youth.
4/12/19 Resilience: Free Screening and Discussion Open to the Public 7pm – 10pm
Come down to The Sheraton Hartford South Hotel 100 Capital Blvd Rocky Hill, to watch Resilience. RESILIENCE is a one-hour documentary that delves into the science of ACEs and the birth of a new movement to treat and prevent Toxic Stress. Now understood to be one of the leading causes of everything from heart disease and cancer to substance abuse and depression, extremely stressful experiences in childhood can alter brain development and have lifelong effects on health and behavior. View the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=We2BqmjHN0k FREE.
2019 KARUNA CONFERENCE
Support-Connection-Healing
Friday, April 12 - 13, 2019
8:00AM - 5:00PM
The Sheraton Hartford South Hotel
100 Capital Blvd Rocky Hill, CT 06067
REGISTER at www.karunact.org
4/13/19 Photography Exposition: Communities fighting for Freedom 6pm –
Happening at First and Summerfield Church, 425 College Street, New Haven for a glimpse into the lives of Nelson Pinos and Sujitno Sajuti. Both men, have been living in sanctuary for over a year to avoid being forcefully removed from their community and their loved ones. This photography exposition is meant to bring the audience, a peek inside the lives of these two courageous men, and the love, support, pain, suffering and uncertainty that they share with their loved ones as well as with the community that continues to support them.
4/15/19 Save The Date: Why CT Needs to Get Youth out of Adult Prison 10am – 12pm
Happening at the Legislative Office Building, 300 Capitol Avenue, Hartford, from the organizer “Save The Date! We are hosting an event with Senator Gary Winfield to discuss the abysmal conditions of confinement in the Department of Corrections for young people. More Information to Come!!! christina@ctjja.org”
4/16/19 Generation One - The Search for Black Wealth 5:30pm – 8:30pm
Happening at Gateway Community College, 20 Church Street, Community Room N-100, New Haven, the Urban League of Southern Connecticut in partnership with Project Longevity-New Haven will host a screening and panel discussion of the critically acclaimed Generation One - The Search for Black Wealth.
4/16/19 What would the transition to an independent PR Look like? 6pm – 8pm
Happening at the New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, join the discussion on the details of how Puerto Rico could transition into an independent country with Adrian Gonzalez of the Puerto Rican Independence Party(PIP) Adrian was a young activist during the fight to liberate Vieques from being a military bombing site, and he will share how that experience led him to become a leader in the fight for Puerto Rican Independent.
4/17/19 Spoken Word & Social Justice 6pm – 8pm
Happening at Stetson Library, 200 Dixwell Avenue, New Haven, for an evening of spoken word, poetry, and music ruminating on the theme of home. Stay tuned for announcements of local poets to perform!
4/18/19 Storytelling & Justice 5:30pm – 8:30pm
Happening at Fair Haven Library, 182 Grande Avenue, New Haven to join Karen DuBois-Walton (Storytellers New Haven) and Bill Graustein (William Casper Graustein Memorial Fund) in conversation with LWT's new Artistic Director Jacob Padrón as they explore the intersection of storytelling and social justice.
4/19/19 Solidarity Film Series: The Revolution Will Not be Televised 7:30pm – 10:30pm
Happening at the People’s Center, 37 Howe Street, New Haven for this free event. From the organizer “April 2002, the democratically elected Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez, faces a coup d'état by an American-backed opposition party. The two-day coup fails to topple Chávez, but the tumultuous event proves to be great dramatic material for two Irish filmmakers who happen to be making a documentary about Chavez as the coup erupts. They capture footage of the massive opposition and pro-Chavez crowds and analyze how Venezuelan TV manipulated images for propaganda purposes. Released 2003.”
4/20/19 "OPERATION LOVE-A-FAIR" 12pm – 5pm
Happening at Scantlebury Park, New Haven, Free community event for the
Homeless and whole needy Community "WE ARE HONORING" Vets,Widows & Kids Of Veterans And The Whole Needy Community All Are Welcome To Give Back, Churches,Schools,Organizations,Businesses And Groups Of All KINDSFor more info call Jesse Jhop Hardy @ (203)821-1957
4/22/19 Planning and Zoning Commission Meeting with our Youth Committee 6pm – 8pm
Join students at 35 Lyon Terrace, Bridgeport as they demand their voices and input be included in the Master Plan at the Planning and Zoning Commission. For more information alison.martinez@maketheroadct.org
4/22/19 Tell Your Story: Finding Home 6pm – 9pm
Happening at New Haven Free Public Library, 133 Elm Street, New Haven, for a city-wide story slam on the theme of "Finding Home." All are welcome to share their stories. Stories will be shared from the Young Leadership Program at IRIS - Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services, "Survivors of Society Rising" at State of Connecticut Connecticut Mental Health Center , Tower One Tower East, and YOU!
Please sign up online in advance here: https://forms.gle/ytPjv9CBHnuv9Kjf9
4/25/19 Immigration Legal Clinic, Bridgeport 5pm – 8pm
For more information contact mary.smith@maketheroadct.org Make the Road has an ongoing need for volunteers in different capacities. For more information contactmary.smith@maketheroadct.org
“For white North Americans, nevertheless, coming to terms with white privilege exacts a price. For Costner's Captain Dunbar, the effort costs him a good beating and nearly his life, but for contemporary whites, the price is more often psychological. As James Baldwin said years ago, "It is not really a 'negro revolution' that is upsetting the country. What is upsetting the country is a sense of its own identity" (Baldwin 1988, 8). And as one white student put it, "I mean now I really have to think about it. Like now I feel white. I feel white" (Gallagher 1994, 165). This "feeling white," when coupled with a repudiation of white privilege, can disable a positive self-image as well as a felt connection to community and history, and generally can disorient identity formation.
Chauvinist legitimation narratives that portrayed European-based societies as the progressive vanguard of the human race produced an almost invisible support structure for the collective self-esteem of all those who could claim such a European identity. In the first half of the twentieth century, the plausibility of these narratives was undermined by the profit-motivated violence of World War I and the technologically orchestrated genocides of World War II. As a response to that disillusionment, new narratives were developed, based on a thorough repudiation of "old world" ethnic hatreds and blind political obedience. The "new" or "modern world" legitimation narratives proclaimed that European-based societies led the world in maximizing individualism, civil liberties, and economic prosperity, which were assumed to be the highest human goods. Of course, many nonwhites are able to participate in these narratives and to see themselves to some extent as a part of the liberatory vanguard. But because it was the cultural traditions and economic methods of Europe and the United States that inspired and guided this progress, naturally whites were at the center and the forefront, with nonwhite allies alongside but to the back.” Linda Martín Alcoff (What Should White People Do?).
Remember - The People United Will Never Be Defeated – you can achieve anything, change anything, be anything, do anything you put your mind to – you are power – united we stand, divided we fall.
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